I think reviews would also be good as well. That and if possible small screen shots of programs at work to give people an idea. One package I was looking at games wise led to a site about it's game engine. The only spot I finally found something on it was the downloads page that gave a small pic of what the program did.(a large portion of the page was in japanese I think character set wise and that is a language I don't know how to read). Perhaps something similar to the freshmeat rating system would work. Such a system of reviews and ratings would not only help those of us who have perhaps used linux awhile but not ran across certain programs but would also benifit newbies to linux.
Right now I'm wondering if there is any spot for those of us somewhere who have unmasked programs and are running them to comment on how the programs perform. I had requested newsticker for gkrellm. It is out but is masked. I unmasked it having used it before and knowing it should be fine(which it is). But I can no longer find it listed in bugzilla anymore. I'm wondering how long it takes to go to unmasked state. I know that one is stable on my system. As also seems to be a few other things: Docker, lineak, mplayerplug-in, and probably the odd other thing that doesn't come to mind at the moment. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:15:46 +0200 Ohad Lutzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if you've all noticed the Gentoo Linux Stable > (http://gentoo-stable.iq-computing.de/), but I think it's a good idea. > > Furthermore, I think we should have a section under gentoo.org itself, > > where we can write what we think about packages in portage. It should > be > either paragraph-long reviews or one-liners ("Nice, but irssi is > better." or "Takes forever to compile!"). This would be a good place > to help choose, for example, an IRC client, instead of seeping through > the millions of discussions on the forums. -- Susie VE7 HFA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arienadean.tripod.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Failure is not falling down, it is not gettnig up again." - Mary Pickford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
